Fitting for the month of Valentine’s Day, a recent employee interaction reminded me of the lessons that I learned from reading the book “The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace” by Gary Chapman. The original book, “The 5 Love ...

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Several years ago, I became convinced that saving passwords in a notebook or Excel spreadsheet wasn’t the safest way to go. At that time, having a smartphone was still new to me. I relied on an employee in my office ...

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Here we are at the end of a decade. When put in these terms, considering that we are at the end of a decade feels significant. In some ways, the last 10 years have felt like a lot of everything ...

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On Oct. 30, along with 60 classmates, I graduated from the 35th GBC Leadership Class, positively the Best Class Ever. The experience was so vast in depth and impact for me. With such an in-depth level of learning about the ...

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Since starting my business in 2009, I have leveraged a model of outsourcing several critical business functions that have contributed to the ability to grow over time. Before branching out of the large investment firm where I worked, I was ...

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I often find myself in conversations advising college students and recent graduates about how to navigate the start of their career paths. These inquiries range from a parent’s insistence to a professor’s suggestion and sometimes from the individual by his ...

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With the increasing focus on diversity & inclusion (D&I) within our work communities, there is a growing acceptance that having a set of people who look, think, talk, act and simply are different from one another creates the most impactful ...

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I am in the market for a new home. This surprises me, given how much of a city girl I am. I have loved living in Butchers Hill, one of many neighborhoods in Baltimore that provides such a rich city ...

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For so many of us in professional services, when you reach a certain point in your career there is an inflection point when you evolve beyond being a service provider to becoming a trusted adviser. With this role comes an ...

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For many of us, regaining the life we want is more a matter of gaining and less a sense that we ever intentionally carved out the space we imagined for each of the priorities in our lives. This has never ...

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